The combined Maccabi thread - now with are you going? poll

[dorsetvillian]

I mentioned before how the Tommy Robinson chant was being sung on the train back into Rotterdam after our 2-0 win. Fucking depressing..

[Max Villan]

The winners tonight……Aston Villa FC and the Villa fans, but of course that will get no coverage.

Impeccable behaviour from everyone in attendance, both inside and outside of the ground.

Mostly agree with you but there were some twats who had a go at Anti-Israel protesters for no reason other than colour of their skin.

All due respect, give it a rest. There were many missing Villa fans around me tonight due to the worries. Call me selfish, racist, a bigot whatever, but I care more for those people than anyone else.

I hope all those people and you’re safe and well.

Back to normality Sunday hopefully.

[Dave]

I had a very vivid dream last night that both sets of protestors broke into my car, chucked all the luggage that I'd inexplicably brought with me around the car park and left my battery flat so I couldn't drive home.

I hate those imaginary protestors.

[Nev]

I was surprised that Trinity Rd was still open post 6pm, were in the 82 Club so entered via that reception. As we strolled up past the Pro Palestine protest two blokes drove up on quad bikes, one with his face covered. It looked like something could happen but a big copper stopped them, had a quick word and they drove on. They reminded me of the Bannana Splits.

Perhaps they were going shopping.

[Exeter 77]

As I was interested I asked an AI tool how much Villa are like to have lost due to the reduced crowd and no away fans the other night and got this answer.

'Aston Villa likely lost between £250,000–£500,000 in ticket revenue from the Maccabi Tel Aviv game, once you factor in both away fans being banned and home fans staying away due to safety fears.'

[dave.woodhall]

As I was interested I asked an AI tool how much Villa are like to have lost due to the reduced crowd and no away fans the other night and got this answer.

'Aston Villa likely lost between £250,000–£500,000 in ticket revenue from the Maccabi Tel Aviv game, once you factor in both away fans being banned and home fans staying away due to safety fears.'

We might have had another 5,000 there but that's about it. The prices probably put more people off than the protests.

[astonvillan]

Glad to see it was largely uneventful aside from the usual useful idiot left-wing “we’re on the same side…no we’re not” scruffs and Islamists making it reminiscent of the weekly hate marches in the capital.

No riot gear was an interesting choice by WMP. I wonder, if like Staffs, they told the locals to discard their weapons in the mosque ?

Again, it appears the fabled far-right were notable by their absence.

You were obviously on the wrong side of the ground for your tastes then.

Oh of course they exist and my fabled comment was a bit of a humorous shot across the bows - but certainly not to any extent to be particularly concerned by them.

When they start committing atrocities like those seen at Manchester Arena, on Westminster Bridge, London Bridge, 7/7, David Amess, Reading, Nice, Charlie Hebdo, Bataclan, raping children en masse whilst the authorities turn a blind eye, singing genocidal chants outside Villa Park etc etc etc., that’ll probably be the time to give them as much oxygen as they currently receive on this forum from the platitude-repeating easily-led.

Glad to see it was largely uneventful aside from the usual useful idiot left-wing “we’re on the same side…no we’re not” scruffs and Islamists making it reminiscent of the weekly hate marches in the capital.

No riot gear was an interesting choice by WMP. I wonder, if like Staffs, they told the locals to discard their weapons in the mosque ?

Again, it appears the fabled far-right were notable by their absence.

Sadly not from this thread.

They were certainly prevalent in that recent 20+ page Jew-bashing binfire of a thread, instigated by a piss-poor error-strewn article.

Probably the most horrendous and damning thread this forum has seen; a forum where the regulars could typically find racism in an empty paper bag…but, naturally, not in that instance.

I found myself recalling the title of David Baddiel’s book on the subject.